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Apollo’s Arrow: The Profound and Enduring Impact of Coronavirus on the Way We Live

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I Index Overall Rating

Readers

49/100

Critics

40/100

Scholars

98/100

Author:

Nicholas A. Christakis

Publisher:

Little, Brown Spark

Date:

October 27, 2020

An account of the impact of the coronavirus pandemic as it swept through American society in 2020, and of how the recovery will unfold in the coming years. Drawing on cutting-edge research from a range of scientific disciplines, bestselling author, physician, sociologist, and public health expert Nicholas A. Christakis explores what it means to live in a time of plague.

What The Reviewers Say

Hamilton Cain,
The Star Tribune
... capacious, gripping.
David Quammen,
New York Times Book Review
Apollo’s Arrow, by Nicholas Christakis, is a useful contribution to this initial wave of Covid books, sensible and comprehensive, intelligent and well sourced, albeit a little programmatic and dull.
Niall Ferguson,
The Times Literary Supplement (UK)
Nicholas Christakis has given his rapidly written yet magisterial book about the pandemic the title Apollo’s Arrow .

Kirkus
An authoritative analysis of the Covid-19 pandemic, from its beginning to its hoped-for end.